So I saw an official Heinz ketchup plant bottle yesterday and I felt good and bad about it. Using renewable sources is awesome don’t get me wrong, but it still does not solve the problem of plastic waste in landfills and in nature! Only 5% of plastics get recycled and the rest end up as [...]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Updated April 22, 10:40 a.m. ET) — The joint-venture PET recycling plant that Coca-Cola Co. opened with great fanfare two years ago in Spartanburg, S.C., has stopped making food-grade recycled PET, but hopes to resume that process sometime this summer. Neither Coke nor United Resource Recovery Corp. LLC ever made any official [...]
The PET bottle was patented in 1973 by chemist Nathaniel Wyeth (brother of distinguished American painter Andrew Wyeth). The first PET bottle was recycled in 1977. An estimated 9,400 curbside collection programs and 10,000 drop-off programs collect PET plastic in the United States, currently. Approximate number of PET beverage bottles per pound: [...]
NAPCOR Reassures on PET Safety with Answers to Common Concerns Sonoma, CA, September 25, 2007 – PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles have garnered a great deal of media attention recently, some of it raising questions about PET safety. According to the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), the trade group for PET packaging, it’s time [...]
